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To colonize a people: The file hilss indian farm colony

The File Hills Indian Farm Colony operated on the Peepeekisis Indian Reserve in southern Saskatchewan between 1900 and 1932. The Colony brought together select graduates from Indian Industrial and Residential Schools for the purpose of farming, community development and, ultimately, assimilation. Although cele- brated nationally and politically as a success, the Colony was also an admitted experiment with human lives and social engineering – meant to solve the “Indian Problem.”

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Betacam SP

Colour, black and white

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Original version in English

Producer, Director and Scriptwriter

Evelyn Poitras

Executive Producer

Doug Cuthand

Narrator

Gordon Tootoosis

Production

Blue Thunderbird Productions
P.O. Box 103
Regina Saskatchewan
S4P 2Z5
Canada
(306) 565-0785
(306) 525-0778
bluethunderbird@microflash.com
www.pesakastew.sk.ca

With the support of

Canadian Television Fund (EIP)

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